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brittany

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Feb 3 2010, 12:29 AM
Foxlair45 and cks bring up some good points about the scare factor. I think tv and video games the biggest issue. Back when I was a kid we didn't have cable for a while. And when we first got it there wasn't all the channels we have now, there is at least 10 channels dedicated to kids on my Directv! And then there is video games. I didn't have a game system till I was a senior in high school but other kids in the neighborhood did. I could hardly ever get those kids to come out of their house to play. Now little kids have nintendo ds's!

Also like other here I did stuff as a kid that parents probably wouldn't let their kids do today. I would ride my bike all over the place and had lots of wooded areas around my neighborhood to explore. If my parents would have known all I did back then they might have freaked out.

As for kids now days I do see some kids playing in the neighborhood behind me a lot. But they are playing at the end of culdesacs. But I don't see many playing in my neighborhood or others I walk around.

I think schools need to bring back PE. Make it every day and make them actually do something strenuous. Most kids in grade school wouldn't do anything unless they were forced to. When I got in high school PE was only required during your freshmen year and it was for half the year. Those kids hardly did anything. Now if you played football you were not so lucky. That meant running and working out all period.
I grew up with woods behind our house. I was a tomboy and a tree climber. Amazing how tall those trees my friends and I climbed. We rode bikes, skated, played ball in the streets. Not that many opporunities for girls.

Gym is required in our school district through high school. With all the sports and teams our kids get plenty of exercise.
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I was often far from home on foot or on a bike when school was out in the summer. Of course, we didn't have TV's and computers in our bedrooms in those days. Entertainment was outside somewhere.

Now, Mom or Dad would ask where I was going, but of course I often went somewhere else, and would have been in trouble if caught in the lie, but there was really no one to catch you. My parents probably had no idea where I was much of the time in the summer, and that was true of all the kids in the neighborhood.

It was such a different time. I can remember walking for miles down the railroad tracks exploring and going deep into the woods and being gone most of the day, and being thoroughly worn out when I got back home for supper.

One big difference is that most of the parents in the area knew most of the kids and knew who belonged to who. Also, there were neighborhood beat police who also knew who was who, and who belonged, and who was out of place. So maybe there was a kind of informal neighborhood watch...
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Feb 3 2010, 09:03 AM
I was often far from home on foot or on a bike when school was out in the summer. Of course, we didn't have TV's and computers in our bedrooms in those days. Entertainment was outside somewhere.

Now, Mom or Dad would ask where I was going, but of course I often went somewhere else, and would have been in trouble if caught in the lie, but there was really no one to catch you. My parents probably had no idea where I was much of the time in the summer, and that was true of all the kids in the neighborhood.

It was such a different time. I can remember walking for miles down the railroad tracks exploring and going deep into the woods and being gone most of the day, and being thoroughly worn out when I got back home for supper.

One big difference is that most of the parents in the area knew most of the kids and knew who belonged to who. Also, there were neighborhood beat police who also knew who was who, and who belonged, and who was out of place. So maybe there was a kind of informal neighborhood watch...
Exact same here, including the RR tracks!


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The transportation dept. DID go after Toyota in a very pubkic way, which really surprised me. JUST AS YOU SAID, though I am not certain owning Guberment Motors is why they did it. Of all I've read on the matter, there are only 11 lawsuits that been filed.

A Toyota technician told me they're going to remove carpet pad on some models, shim some accelerator assemblies differently and have to cut a portion off other accelerator pad assemblies. They are presently going through new models, putting smilie face stickers on those with Denso assemblies made in Japan (evidently okay) and marking others to be help off from marketing until they are attended to. He said the problem with the assemblies came from "CTS" model(s), manufactured in Canada he thinks. I question his accuracy, in that there are recalls throughout the world.

Whether or not the reason the transportation dept. went after them is why you thought they might is lefy yet to be proven, but they did make statements condemning them in the media as you suspected could happen. I still can't believe they were so open and harsh, even openly classifying it as the worst case for recall in history...

I tip my hat to you on your foresight in this matter.
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Carolyn, I remember Michelle bashing the country. I don't remember her bashing him although that would not surprise me. I bet these kids eat nothing by tofu and for desert, tofu with chocolate syrup.
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Don't forget the arugula!
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Carolyn, I remember Michelle bashing the country. I don't remember her bashing him although that would not surprise me. I bet these kids eat nothing by tofu and for desert, tofu with chocolate syrup.

In Christopher Andersen's biography 'Barack and Michelle', he talked about how on the campaign trail, Michelle constantly berated Obama, especially in front of black audiences. On the podium, she would make a face when talking about the 'pretty impressive' Obama who was the best selling author and Grammy winner.

"Then," she added with a smirk, "there's the Barack Obama that lives in my house. That guy's not so impressive. He still has trouble putting the bread up and putting his socks actually in the dirty clothes and he still doesn't do a better job than our five-year-old daughter, Sasha, making his bed. So you have to forgive me if I'm a little stunned by this whole Barack Obama thing."

In front of black audiences, Andersen noted, this snide putdown of a black man played exceptionally well. But in front of national audiences - i.e., non-black citizens - people were shocked at Michelle's constant disparagement of her husband. It got so bad that a staunch Obama-supporter, Maureen Dowd, of the New York Times accused Michelle of "making 'emasculating' remarks about her husband that only served make him look like an 'undisciplined child'. Down began calling Barack 'Obambi'."

Michelle was pissed but agreed to roll it back - for white audiences. But in reality she never got rid of her claws, she simply pulled them in for a while. Unhappily, it now appears she's pulled them out again - for her children.

Face it - Michelle is NOT a kind person.
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he still doesn't do a better job than our five-year-old daughter, Sasha, making his bed.


Isn't it Michelle's bed too? Why doesn't she make it? He's been busy, after all...
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he still doesn't do a better job than our five-year-old daughter, Sasha, making his bed.


Isn't it Michelle's bed too? Why doesn't she make it? He's been busy, after all...
She prolly wouldn't complain if he'd go to work!
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Mobama interviewed on Today show. Slouching during interview. What a disgrace. Bring back Laura Bush. Lauer asked Mobana asked a tough question about how does it feel to be criticized after they were so criticial on the campaign Couldn't asnwer it. Biden must have stole her teleprompter.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/michelle-obama-today-show_n_447255.html

watch the slouch.

In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, the first lady said the country is going through tough times with a recession and two wars. She said Americans are rightfully frustrated, and, she says, "the person in charge is the person folks look to."

She said that since Barack Obama became president last year, the couple have "much more respect" for their predecessors because only presidents and their families understand the job's pressures.

They sure show it.
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This is a beautifu color that looks great on Michelle. What bothers me is that she refuses to buy a sweater that fits her properly. If she can't button it, then leave it open or then buy a shrug!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/09/2010-02-09_michelle_defends_president_obama_in_wake_of_sarah_palins_tea_party_snipes.html
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A. He's clearly not in charge.

B. I don't look to him.
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Explaining Obama's first year troubles, Mobama said in her interview his her hand-picked interviewer, Robin Roberts, that Hope entails Faith.

I've been saying this is a religion - or a cult. That also explains how many love Obama and disagree with his policies.

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Feb 3 2010, 12:55 PM
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Feb 3 2010, 10:15 AM
Carolyn, I remember Michelle bashing the country. I don't remember her bashing him although that would not surprise me. I bet these kids eat nothing by tofu and for desert, tofu with chocolate syrup.

In Christopher Andersen's biography 'Barack and Michelle', he talked about how on the campaign trail, Michelle constantly berated Obama, especially in front of black audiences. On the podium, she would make a face when talking about the 'pretty impressive' Obama who was the best selling author and Grammy winner.

"Then," she added with a smirk, "there's the Barack Obama that lives in my house. That guy's not so impressive. He still has trouble putting the bread up and putting his socks actually in the dirty clothes and he still doesn't do a better job than our five-year-old daughter, Sasha, making his bed. So you have to forgive me if I'm a little stunned by this whole Barack Obama thing."

In front of black audiences, Andersen noted, this snide putdown of a black man played exceptionally well. But in front of national audiences - i.e., non-black citizens - people were shocked at Michelle's constant disparagement of her husband. It got so bad that a staunch Obama-supporter, Maureen Dowd, of the New York Times accused Michelle of "making 'emasculating' remarks about her husband that only served make him look like an 'undisciplined child'. Down began calling Barack 'Obambi'."

Michelle was pissed but agreed to roll it back - for white audiences. But in reality she never got rid of her claws, she simply pulled them in for a while. Unhappily, it now appears she's pulled them out again - for her children.

Face it - Michelle is NOT a kind person.
I do remember now. I actually remember her saying Barack is smelley in the morning or something to that effect. Explain why this would not offend black audiences.
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